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Caltech Announces Newest Cohort of Leadership Chairs and Named Professorships
09/30/2025

Caltech Announces Newest Cohort of Leadership Chairs and Named Professorships

This year Caltech recognizes four faculty members with leadership chairs and six with named professorships.

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Caltech Welcomes New Students and Scholars for the 2025–26 Academic Year
09/29/2025

Caltech Welcomes New Students and Scholars for the 2025–26 Academic Year

Sharon W. Tran

The Institute kicked off the academic year with Convocation 2025, which focused on the topic of advancing intelligence in the age of AI.

A group of new students exit Beckman Auditorium after Convocation 2025.
Caltech Team Sets Record with 6,100-Qubit Array
09/24/2025

Caltech Team Sets Record with 6,100-Qubit Array

The neutral-atom platform shows promise for scaling up quantum computers.

Thousands of white dots in a black circle.
John Preskill Honored by Quantum World Congress
09/18/2025

John Preskill Honored by Quantum World Congress

Cynthia Eller

John Preskill, the Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, is named Academic Pioneer in Quantum for 2025.

Professor John Preskill, a middle-aged white man, wears wire-rimmed glasses and a black shirt.
Ten Years Later, LIGO is a Black-Hole Hunting Machine
09/10/2025

Ten Years Later, LIGO is a Black-Hole Hunting Machine

Whitney Clavin

LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA celebrate anniversary, announce verification of Stephen Hawking's Black Hole Area Theorem.

Swirling, colorful, wisps of gas surround a black hole.
Artificial Intelligence Helps Boost LIGO
09/04/2025

Artificial Intelligence Helps Boost LIGO

Whitney Clavin

New algorithm hushes unwanted noise in LIGO, may lead to more black hole discoveries.

hanging mirrors are seen with lasers between them and ripples in space-time in the background
How Caltech Analysts Power the Dodgers Dynasty
08/25/2025

How Caltech Analysts Power the Dodgers Dynasty

Andrew Moseman

Alums Grace Peng and Ryan Casey leverage their computer science backgrounds to help the storied franchise make winning decisions.

Grace Peng and Ryan Casey stand on the field at Dodger Stadium
Braided Magnetic Flux Ropes Are Found at Both Human and Light Year Scales
08/22/2025

Braided Magnetic Flux Ropes Are Found at Both Human and Light Year Scales

Investigating the structure of solar flares has led Paul Bellan, professor of applied physics, and his colleagues to discover an equilibrium state for not only solar flares but all double helical magnetic structures.

Astronomical image of the Double Helix Nebula in the Milky Way Galaxy. The nebula appears as two twisting ropes in orange surrounded by stars appearing as orange spots.
Brinson Exploration Hub Projects Make the Invisible Visible
08/19/2025

Brinson Exploration Hub Projects Make the Invisible Visible

Three innovative projects will explore Earth and the cosmos

Zhongwen Zhan in a bright red winter coat swinging a sledgehammer at the Antarctic ice
Evidence Found for Planet around Closest Sun-Like Star
08/07/2025

Evidence Found for Planet around Closest Sun-Like Star

The candidate gas giant planet sits in the habitable zone around Alpha Centauri A.

Pinkish streaked planet is seen in foreground, with two bright stars in background.